Container ship with broken back

[ribrage]

Not an overly popular sailing spot, but worthy of a mention :

Mol stated: "At about noon JST on Tuesday, the fore part of the hull was drifting at around 13'00"N 60'40"E, and the aft part about 19 miles southwest from that point. Both parts of the ship are laden with containers and drifting in an east-northeast direction. We are arranging tugboats to tow both parts.''

see link :

http://www.cargonewsasia.com/secured/article.aspx?id=3&article=31165

 

[Habebty]

This is how they bend in a storm -

http://youtu.be/NE_ri8PkihE

 

[sailorman]

http://gcaptain.com/mol-box-ship-suffers-broken-back-sinks-off-yeme/

 

[Bilgediver]

This is how they bend in a storm -

http://youtu.be/NE_ri8PkihE

Yep bending in all directions and is that a cylinder relief valve or two in the distance. It is the cracks and moans from the structure that used to spook me!

 

[Kurrawong_Kid]

She does not appear to be an old vessel (2008) so rather surprising. Shades of the Derbyshire?

 

[Angele]

The thread title rather disguises the subject, but see http://www.ybw.com/forums/showthread.php?363678-Box-Boat-makes-Bavaria-quality-look-good

 

[Biggles Wader]

She does not appear to be an old vessel (2008) so rather surprising. Shades of the Derbyshire?

Contrary to the widely held theory at the time the Derbyshire did not break up and sink due to hull weakness.It turns out the forward hatch covers were inadequate and she was simply overwhelmed by water pouring in through the covers coming adrift.That was only realised a few years ago when the wreck was discovered.

 

[ribrage]

The Ship im on now is fairly rigged , but in a storm she groans something wicked, sends a shiver down your spine and gets you reaching for the light switch, its an eery noise when a ship flexes, it travels the whole length of her , like shes groaning in protest. Puts the hairs up on the back of your neck everyime .

 

[ffiill]

Far more sailors loose their lives in the 21st century than did in the 19th century-most are from poor third world countries and therefore do not get a mention.The ships often bulk carriers are worked until they fall apart and are lost at sea.
The person I bought my yacht off an MSA surveyors told me various horror stories such as the ship where the crew contacted the MSA because the only water on the ship had to be fetched by bucket from the water tanks.Another where you could poke holes in the deck with a screwdriver!
Nothing new mind you as I once worked with someone who had sailed on Cypriot owed Liberty ships in the 1950s most of which had had a reinforcing strip of plating around their midships to stop them breaking in half and where you could cut a pencil in half on the working cracks in the bulwarks.

 

[onesea]

Far more sailors loose their lives in the 21st century than did in the 19th century-most are from poor third world countries and therefore do not get a mention.

I am not certain more sailors are lost, but certainly more ships than people imaging. As said often these vessels are lost without even a mention in the news.

I was discussing this the other day with a Helicopter Pilot, he had been involved in a recent search that never made the news. As he said if it was a helicopter that went down lives lost or not it would of made the news...

https://www.google.com.sg/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&ved=0CC0QFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.upstreamonline.com%2Flive%2Farticle1328477.ece&ei=7nzCUa_2HsS8rAf544HgCQ&usg=AFQjCNEz9bG3Q5vrPQ1vl47rAnLKrq4r8w&sig2=6cSBt-GdRj7VRGLnU16koA&bvm=bv.48175248,d.bmk

http://gcaptain.com/mdpl-continental-anchor-handling/

There are many more that are never made national news...

I was going to list a couple more older ones, sadly it seems even Google forgets these cases...

 

[bikedaft]

is it not one bulk carrier a week lost without trace? a throwaway comment from a Lloyds surveyor, but it was 5 years ago